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Using the Manage Links dialog box

Using the Manage Links dialog box - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit: Advanced Techniques for Importing CAD Drawings

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Using the Manage Links dialog box

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- [Instructor] Once again, we're staying in our 01 underscore simple building project dot RVT file. Now you'll remember, in the previous video, we linked a CAD drawing into the revit model, and I've left the revit model in the same state as it was in the previous video. So you can see there that we've got our linked CAD drawing, in the drawing area there, and you can see in our project browser, we've brought that in at the zero zero ground floor plan level. Now, that linked CAD file is, in essence, paperclipped to the revit model. So if I go up to the insert tab on the revit ribbon, and go into the link panel, and click on manage links, if I go into my CAD formats, there's my zero zero ground floor plan. Now as you can see, the status is loaded. The size is 263 point 6K, and the safe path is there, and the path type is there as well. Now the path type is relative which means that the DWG file is in the same folder as the revit RVT file, and it's always a good habit to get into to make…

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